UNCW College of Arts & Sciences newsletter

College of

Atts & Sciences

Spring 2000

W'hat are the "ingredients" of
an Oprah Book Club pick?
On November 4, Bret Lott
gave The King's Road Writers Series'
audience a sample by reading from his
bestselling novel Jewel, which was the
February 1 999 Oprah Book Club
featured selection.

Published in hardcover in 1991 and
in paperback in 1992, Jewel deals with
a mother' s struggle for the dignity of
her youngest child, a victim of birth
defect. The Boston Globe raved, "In
Jewel, (Lott) apples his art to a broad
canvas and produces what may stand
as his masterpiece."

During his visit to UNCW, Mr. Lott
also met individually with MFA

The King 's Road Writers Series presents.

Bret Lott

students, visited a fiction writing
workshop, and held a question-and-
answer forum in Randall Library
Auditorium. He donated copies of his
books to be sold to benefit The King's
Road Writers Series.

Mr. Lott is the author of four other
highly acclaimed novels, The Man Who
Owned Vermont, A Stranger 's House,
Reed's Beach, and The Hunt Club, as
well as two collections of short stories,
A Dream of Old Leaves and How to Get
Home, and a memoir, Fathers, Sons,
and Brothers. His latest novel Dead Low
Tide is a sequel to the literary mystery

Coastal Ocean Monitoring

Due to the urgency of flooding
problems caused by Hurricane
Floyd, UNCW marine scientists
began monitoring the physical, chemical
and biological characteristics of the
coastal ocean in the Cape Fear region
immediately after the storm. This study
also includes the plume of the Cape
Fear River and the continental shelf in
northern Long Bay and southern
Onslow Bay.

"The monitoring project will provide
important information about a variety of
coastal ocean features and processes,"
said Dr. Larry Cahoon, professor of
biological sciences and Coastal Ocean
Monitoring principal investigator. "As
the nation's population and economic
activities are increasingly concentrated
near the coasts, proper stewardship of

our coastal resources will require
routine collection of important data,
leading to better knowledge and
understanding, which will in turn
improve forecasting and management."
The first major efforts made by this
project include a variety of responses to

pholo hs Inn W.ill

Larry Cahoon and colleague
testing water samples

the flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd.

including assessments of water quality

impacts on the Cape Fear River Estuary

photo by Mami Rothschild

The Hunt Club and is due out soon.

After an early religious experience,
Mr. Lott said he "went home to
Southern California to study Marine
Biology, then quit and became an RC
Cola salesman, then went back to
school to become an English major, and
took a creative writing class." He

Continued on page 3....

and nearby ocean, surveillance for algal
blooms that may result from flood-
driven nutrient loading, analysis of
impacts on fishes and bottom-dwelling
animals, assessment of pollutant loading
effects, and studies of impacts on
marine birds and mammals.

According to Dr. Cahoon, early
results indicate major impacts on levels
of dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and
chemical composition of river water
flowing into the sea. These studies
have also been supported by additional
resources made available from the UNC
Sea Grant program, the National Sea
Grant Program, the National Undersea
Research Center at UNCW. and the
Duke-UNC Oceanographic Consortium
in response to the flooding event.

The scientific team working on the
coastal ocean monitoring project

Continued on next page. . . . .^iaiifea*.

— INCVV

Dean 's Remarks

CAS Survives Hurricane Floyd

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Jo Ann Seiple
Dean

photo by Kathy Rugoff

A series of hurricanes, ending most
notably with Hurricane Floyd,
posed a myriad of challenges to the
College of Arts and Sciences in the
fall, but the CAS not only survived the
onslaught of storms, but also
performed admirably in spite of them.
Lost time resulting from canceled
classes was regained through the
cancellation of fall break and the
usually open reading day before final
exams. The course withdrawal period
was extended to accommodate
students who needed more time to see
if they could pass their classes. Many
professors scheduled special review
sessions before final exams to help
their students tie the semester' s course
work together.

The opening of the new Center for
Marine Science at Myrtle Grove has
been delayed, and for a period.

construction of the college's new
classroom building was put on hold
while legislators debated ways to fund
the region's recovery from the
widespread regional devastation
caused by Hurricane Floyd.
Thankfully, that building project is back
on track, and ground will be broken
sometime in late March or early April.

A number of CAS events were
also either canceled or delayed, but
there were some triumphant successes
as well. Attendance at the Music
Department's concerts rose by 45%
from the previous fall, with many
audiences ranging from 400 to 600
attendees. The Department of Art and
Theatre's production of Shakespeare's
Much Ado about Nothing had to
schedule extra performances, as sell-
out audiences packed the Standing
Room Only theatre to see the witty
and creative adaptation directed by
Dr. Renee Vincent. The
department' s visiting artist, oil painter
Helen Mirkil, was also well-received
by students and townspeople at her
October show of self-portraits, as well
as her evening presentation and
reception. Author Bret Lott dazzled a
packed audience during the
Department of Creative Writing's first
public reading in The Kings Road

Writing Series. The semester ended
on a joyful note as more than 600
people jammed the Warwick Center
Ballroom for a special free screening
of It's A Wonderful Life sponsored by
the Film Studies Program in
December. Frank Capra, Jr., and
sons Jonathan and Frank, III, were
on hand to sign autographs during the
pre-screening reception and to discuss
the production after showing the
family ' s own print of the film.

Successes weren't limited only to
the college's arts program, however.
By the end of December, 36 CAS
faculty had obtained more than
$3,240,000 in funding from external
grants to support their research. We
expect equal funding success
throughout the spring and early
summer, as a number of other major
projects are expected to receive
approval.

The spring semester is also the
college's prime time for recruiting new
faculty. This year we are searching for
23 new tenure-track faculty in 13
departments, as well as new chairs for
the Departments of PoUtical Science
and Mathematics and Statistics.

Much more will be happening as
well, but I will save that news until
next time.

Monitoring

continued from cover....
includes several working groups
focusing on more specific aspects of
coastal ocean science. Each of these
components is complemented by other
ongoing projects, so the net return
from this effort is multiplied.

"We hope this project will evolve
into a larger, more comprehensive
monitoring effort with additional
partners and collaborations," said Dr.
Gaboon. "Regional and national-level
scientists and policy makers have
begun to come to consensus that

comprehensive ocean monitoring is an
important national need, so we look for
this program to become a model for
the larger efforts that need to follow."

Faculty working on the program
include group leaders: Dr. Michael
Mallin, research scientist, UNCW
Center for Marine Science; Dr. Steve
Skrabal, assist.professor of chemistry;
Dr. Lynn Leonard, assoc. professor
of earth sciences; Dr. David
Lindquist, curator of fishes of
biological sciences; Dr. Steve
Emslie, assist, professor of biological

sciences; Dr. Fred Bingham, assoc.
professor of physics and physical
oceanography; and Dr. Art Spivack,
professor of earth sciences. Also
assisting with the project is is Dr. Lian
Xie, assist, professor of physical
oceanography, NC State. A total of 20
faculty are involved.

UNCW has received a grant of
$730,000 from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Office for first-year funding of the
Coastal Ocean Monitoring Program.

UNCW

Internship Anyone?...

Internships at the UNCW are
designed to provide students who
are juniors and seniors an opportunity
to gain valuable hands-on experience
in the workplace while simultaneously
earning academic credit toward
graduation. During the fall semester of
1999, one hundred twenty-seven
students took advantage of this
opportunity. Of these, ninety-two
students came from nine majors within
the College of Arts and Sciences,
including art, communication studies,
computer science, English,
environmental sciences, foreign
languages and literature, political
science, recreation, and theatre.

Two students in environmental
science completed a particularly
challenging internship abroad recently.
Working for the Belize Audubon

Ashley Hutchins working on educational signs

for the Green Knowledge Trail in the

Cockscomb Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize.

Society, seniors Ashley Hutchens
and Lila Thomas spent thirteen
weeks at the Cockscomb Wildlife
Sanctuary and Preserve deep in the
jungle of Belize. The park, six miles
from the nearest Mayan village, is a
120,000-acre haven for jaguars,
pumas, ocelots, jaguarondis, margays,
and other wild animals.

Part of Ashley and Lila's duties
included developing environmental
education materials to be distributed in
the Mayan schools of Belize. They

also helped maintain the park's main
trail and developed informational signs,
which were posted along the trail for
tourists visiting the park.

Constantly battling mosquitoes and
living in a two-room cabin with no
phone, no electricity, and no hot water,
Ashley and Lila's living conditions
were far from luxurious. In fact, they
had to wash their clothes on a wash-
board in a river. Nonetheless, "The
whole experience was great,"
commented Ashley. "I wasn't ready to
come back." When asked about what
she gained from her time in the jungle,
Ashley disclosed, "...strength and a
great sense of independence. You also
learn to appreciate what you have here
in America." When asked if she
would do it again, Ashley responded,
"In a heartbeat!"

Gerontology Program ...Emergency Preparedness.

How older adults in southeastern
North Carolina dealt with
emergency preparedness measures
during this year's hurricanes is one
focus of the UNCW Generations
Together Service Learning Project,
which will be conducted January 2000.

The study, conducted by the
Gerontology Program, is in conjunction
with Project ROAR (Raising Older
Adults Rights), a collaborative project
involving public and private sector
human service agencies in New
Hanover County.

Students enrolled in the studying
for a post-baccalaureate certificate, as
well as undergraduate students, will
interview older adults. Through a
series of conversations, students will
collect and analyze participants' life
histories as well as their experiences
dealing with hurricanes and readiness
efforts. The project is being funded

Eleanor Covan
Director

through a grant from the University of
Pittsburgh/Association for Gerontology
in Higher Education.

"This is an important project that
will provide practical hands-on training
for students and gather much-needed
infonnation in the planning efforts of
service providers related to older
adults," said Dr. Eleanor Covan,
director of the gerontology program.

This fall the university accepted
students for the post-baccalaureate
certificate offered by the Gerontology
Program. The program offers students
the opportunity to remain employed in
the community while furthering their
education. Professionals working with

older adults can improve job skills
through the hands-on training,
research, and theory taught in
program. It complements practical
skills used on the job.

Bret Lott

continued from cover....

Strives to reflect his strong personal
values in his literary works.

A resident of Charleston, SC, Mr.
Lott holds an MFA in Creative Writing
from the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and teaches at College of
Charleston and Vermont College.

The King's Road Writer's Series is
made possible by the generous support
of The King's Road, a Wilmington
shop specializing in fine writing
instruments, stationery and gifts.

— DNCVV:

CAS Alumni...

Julie Polak

B.A. Communication Studies '97

During her senior year, Julie
Polak completed Dr. Patricia
Comeaux's senior seminar;
Interactive Video Conferencing:
Training and Development. She
became fascinated with the application
possibilities of the distance learning
network of the North Carolina
Information Highway. Consistent with
her boundless energy and
determination, Julie initiated an
internship in telemedicine in her
hometown of Charlotte at Carolinas
Health Care System. Her ability to
apply what she learned in her
communication studies courses and to
bring a human communication
perspective into a technical world

made her a valuable addition to the
telemedicine department at the medical
center. After graduation, Julie turned
her internship into a career, becoming
a full time employee as a telemedicine
applications specialist. Her major
responsibiUties include coordinating the
numerous affiliate sites for
videoconferences and training site
coordinators and end users in technical
and communication skills. Since JuUe
now understands both worlds
(technical and human communication),
she often serves as a liaison between
technical and medical personnel,
translating and facilitating
communication.

Julie returns to UNCW each

semester via the video conferencing
network of the North Carohna
Information Highway to speak with
students in communication studies
classes. She describes her process of
initiating an internship and how it
evolved into a career. In addition to
demonstrating and explaining the
appUcations of telemedicine, JuUe
illustrates how she applies her UNCW
degree in the work place. She
encourages students to pursue their
dreams and advises them to take
advantage of their college life with its
many learning opportunities. JuUe
Polak provides a powerful presence
for communication studies majors.
Students rave about their dialogue with
her. As one student put it: "She helped
lessen my fears about the transition
from college to career."

Julie has made the transition with
distinction and was honored as the
department's outstanding alumna at
last year's annual banquet.

Charlie Hu

M.S. Mathematics '95

Wenlan Lu

M.S. Mathematics '96

Charlie Hu and Wenlan Lu,
who are married and reside in
Raleigh with their three year
old son, both earned the master's
degree in mathematics at UNCW.
Each earned the B.S. from Huazhong
University, which is located in central
China along the Yangzi River.

After graduating, Wenlan worked
first developing software for
physicians and hospitals and then did

systems analysis as a senior specialist
at Nortel Networks, Inc. She is now a
lead analyst/developer for Supply
Chain Management, where she is
responsible for implementation and
support of new software. She has won
several professional awards.

Charlie used his teaching assistant
experience at UNCW by teaching at
Fayetteville Community College after
graduation, and then moved to Medic

Computer Systems as a
communication analyst/system
programmer. He next worked at IBM
and is now a senior systems developer
at Nortel, where he is developing a
new manufacturing management
system.

Wenlan and Charlie both give credit
to their studies at UNCW with giving
them the skills at logical analysis that
have made their careers successful.

UNCW

When Scott Ramey first
came to UNCW, the
thought of majoring in
philosophy and rehgion was the
farthest thing from his mind. When he
discovered that a 'dyed in the wool'
sceptic could find understanding,
support, and challenge in these
disciphnes, he discovered that the
major was right for him.

Scott became a serious student of
philosophy. Through hard work and
determination, he transformed himself
into a highly motivated, well-
disciplined, rigorous, and systematic
thinker. He never gave up his
skepticism, but rather honed his

Scott P. Ramey

B.A. Philosophy '98

skeptical skills in analysis, criticism,
and debate. He did outstanding work in
social and poUtical philosophy, ethics,
philosophy of reUgion, and logic. His
professors noted his growth and
improvement all along the way and
encouraged him to pursue his dream of
becoming a philosophy professor.
Scott is currently enrolled as a
graduate student in logic at Texas A &

M University in College Station,Texas.
The same drive and progress that
characterized his undergraduate
training continues to guide him in his
post-graduate studies. Scott's talent,
hard work, and specialized focus on
logic with some of the nation's leading
logicians make his career plans very
promising.

Roger Shew returned to his
roots, southeastern North
Carolina, in May 1999 after
spending 20 years in the petroleum
industry. After UNCW, he entered the
graduate program in geology at UNC-
CH, completing a M.S. in 1979. With
some reservation, he left North
CaroHna in 1979 for Shell Oil Co. in
New Orleans because he wanted
industrial experience in preparation for
a career in teaching, and because his
wife Dale (B.S. Biology '76) had the
opportunity to work for the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service. In New Orleans,
Roger worked as a development
geologist, drilhng wells, maintaining
leases and developing strategies for
petroleum extraction. After five years,
Roger was sent to Shell's research
facility in Bellaire, Texas, on a two-
year assignment which quickly turned
into 10 years. While there, he had the
opportunity to work in reservoir
geology and to initiate pioneer
exploration work in the area of
deepwater sedimentary systems. This
work culminated in his writing over
150 internal Shell reports and over 30
papers for peer reviewed journals.
Four of Roger's talks/papers were
selected as best at meetings of the

American Association of Petroleum
Geologists.

During Roger's free time he
entered the PhD program in geology at
the University of Houston and
completed all course work and his
comprehensives. However, his
demanding schedule at Shell never
permitted him time to complete his
dissertation. He did, however, complete
a M.S.E. at the University of Houston.
Armed with his degree, Roger
organized field trips and workshops for
earth science teachers in the Houston
area for several years, and workshops
for teachers to the Guadalupe
Mountains National Park through New
Mexico State University. After 10
years in exploration and production
work at Shell's research lab, Roger

Roger Shew

B.A. Earth Sciences '76
Honors: Biology & Geology

took an instructor position for Shell.

During his last five years with the
company, he taught various topics to
new hires as well as seasoned
veterans about production and
exploration geology. Although Roger
retired in May from Shell after 20
years, he continues to be active in
teaching. During fall 1999 he taught
Environmental Geology at UNCW. 4
workshops for Shell in Houston, and
two workshops for teachers in the
Guadalupe Mountains.

Roger's success demonstrates that
UNCW produces top quality
individuals who often have the desire
to shiue their knowledge and education
with today's students. The Department
of Earth Sciences is delighted to have
Roger associated with it again. ^^

— IINOV

Faculty Garner Research, Curriculum Awards...

Twenty-seven faculty from 17
departments in have been
awarded CAS Summer Research or
Curriculum Developments Initiatives
for 2000, while another 17 have
received the university's Cahill Awards
to support their research

Research initiative award recipients
and their research topics include the
following: Todd Berliner, English,
1970s films; Don Bushman, English,
the collected papers of George
Herbert Mead; Yixen Chen, history,
attempts to organize the peasant
population in China; Clayton Ferner,
computer science, parallel computing;
Don Furst, art & theatre, the etching
of photopolymer copper plates; Hal
Langfur, history, frontier settlers,
slaves, and Indians in Minas Gerais,
Brazil; John Karlof, mathematics and
statistics, the application of
mathematical programming/operations
research to radioactive waste facility
policy; Xin Lu, mathematics and
statistics, numerical solutions of
reaction diffusion equations; Patrick
McKay, psychology, cognitive abihty
testing; Michael Messina, chemistry,
the chemical fate of pollutants in the
environment; Alison Murray, foreign
languages and literatures, the effects
of film on social change in France;
Michael Perko, HPER, coach
awareness of the use/non-use of
dietary supplements by adolescent
athletes in the public schools; Jammie
Price, sociology, anthropology, and
criminal justice, emergency care for
children in North Carolina; Karan
Smith, mathematics and statistics,
effective teaching of discrete
mathematics in the pubUc schools;
Lynne Snowden, sociology,
anthropology, and criminal justice, the
effects of the 1996 Immigration Law's
benefit provisions on southeastern
North Carolina's migrant farm workers
affected by Hurricane Floyd; Virginia
Stewart, history, consumer goods in

late colonial America; and Barbara
Waxman, English, bilinguaUsm and
biculturalism as revealed in
authobiography.

Recipients of summer initiatives for
curriculum development include the
following: David Berman, computer
Science, redesign of CSC 121; Bill
Bolduc, communications studies,
advanced video production courses,
including underwater field experience;
David Evans, sociology, anthropology,
and criminal justice, new course in
environmental crime; Candace
Gauthier, philosophy & reUgion, new
course in media ethics; Joanne Halls,
earth sciences, preparation for GIS
training workshops for faculty and
staff across the university; Rebecca
Jones, chemistry, new lab manual for
CHM 103; Stephen Meinhold,
poUtical science, undergraduate and
graduate courses in administrative law;
John Myers, art & theatre, creation
of a digital image database for art
history courses; Terry Theodore, art
& theatre, new course in film history;
and David Weber, communication
studies, design of case materials for
inclusion in organizational
communication courses.

Cahill Awards went to the following
faculty to support their research:
Craig Bailey, biological sciences,
intervening sequence found in
chromophyte algae genes; Herbert
Berg, philosophy and rehgion, early
Ishlam under three caliphs; Caroline
Clements, psychology, domestic
battering; Darwin Dennison, HPER,
nutrition intervention with middle
school students; Dargan Frierson,
mathematics and statistics, statistical
software; Philip Furia, creative
writing, biography of Johnny Mercer;
Lisa Jenkins, psychology, cognitive
performance, aging, and medical
procedures; Hal Langfur, history,
frontier settlers, slaves, and Indians in
Minas Gerais. Brazil; Pierre Lapaire,

Provost
Appointed

Dr. John C. Cavanaugh has
joined UNCW as the new
provost and vice chancellor for
academic affairs.

"All I have ever wanted to do in
life is teach at the college level."

As the chief academic officer he
guides UNCW's scholastic mission.
For one who loves teaching, assuming
this administrative job could be seen as
a departure. "That's not the case. As
an advocate for the UNCW academic
community, my first priority is to the
learning environment. I want UNCW
to be the best possible place for
students and faculty to learn."

Dr. Cavanaugh earned a B.S. in
psychology from University of
Delaware and M.S. and Phd. from
University of Notre Dame.

foreign languages and literatures, a
critical evaluation of Philippe Djian;
Patrick McKay, psychology, task-
specific information process tests and
conscientiousness; Michael Messina,
chemistry, low-barrier hydrogen bonds;
Gene Tagliarini and Sridhar
Narrayan, both in computer science,
use of digital maps in determining road
conditions and alternate routes; David
Padgett, biological sciences and
Michael Messina, chemistry, human
health risks associated with environ-
mental pollution; Jammie Price,
sociology, anthropology, and criminal
justice, heterosexist attitudes and
homophobic acts; Paul Shotsberger,
mathematics and statistics, online
transcript data analysis; David White,
chemistry, crystallographic studies of
chiral recognition; and Ami Wilbur,
biological sciences, genetic structure of
locally adapted populations of the
Atlantic Silverside, Menidia.

IJNC^

Dobo Hall Named...

The university has accepted the
largest gift commitment in its
history to date.

Alumni and brothers Gabriel
William 'Bill' and Robert 'Bob'
Ridgely Dobo and their wives Barbara
and Dorothy have established
charitable trusts which will provide
$5,000,000 to UNCW. Both brothers
attended UNCW when it was
Wilmington College in the late 1940's

l-r: Bill & Barbara Dobo, Bill Cooper (chair,

chemistry), Scott Quackenbush (chair, biological

sciences) Dorothy & Bob Dobo

Updated Computer Science Lab...

and early 1950's. UNCW celebrated
this wonderful commitment on October
28 with the UNCW Board of Trustees,
faculty, students, and many friends
during the naming ceremony of Dobo
Hall.

Formerly known as the new science
building, Dobo Hall is home to the
Departments of Biological Sciences
and Chemistry.

The Department of Computer
Science celebrated their new
student laboratory with an open house
January 4, 2000. This facility was
converted from an electronics
laboratory so that the department could
support updating its curriculum to give
students hands-on experience with
specialized hardware and software.
The laboratory is to be used for
student research, students doing group
projects in senior level courses, and for
upper level coursework utihzing

software or hardware which cannot be
made available in general purpose
computer facilities. The laboratory
now contains 20 computers, 6 of which
are dedicated to student
experimentation with computer net-
working, network security, and
operating systems. Printers, scanners,
and a CD-ROM burner are also
available in the lab. Plans are to add a
Beowulf-class array of computers
working in parallel by the fall semester.

New lab in Bear Hall

Kitchen Chemistry...

Jimmy Reeves
Chemistry

Anytime, Anywhere Chemistry
Experience, or 'Kitchen
Chemistry', is being developed by Dr.
Jimmy Reeves, associate professor.
Department of Chemistry, and Dr.
Doris Kimbrough, University of
Colorado at Denver. The course in
which the labs will be implemented is
designed for professionals who have
other commitments that don't allow
them to come back to campus. All the
notes, assignments and interactive

materials are to be available on the
Internet.

Labs are designed so students can
conduct the experiments at home,
performing quantitative measurements
with household chemicals. Any
experiments that cannot be conducted
in a kitchen are performed by graduate
students in on-campus laboratories and
put on videotapes which are then sent
to the on-line students.

The on-line course will also be
available to both Cape Feai" and
Brunswick Community Colleges, but
students will come to the campuses for
weekly laboratory/recitation sessions
taught by their community college

instructor.

The distance learning course will
require more discipline from students.
They will not be in a traditional
classroom setting with a teacher giving
a lecture or reinforcing what
homework needs to be done each
week. The course is most appropriate
for those who know how to budget
their time and who know the
impoilance of keeping up with the
work.

Dr. Reeves is co-principal
investigator on a $960,000 federal
grant from the U.S. Department of
Education to create laboratories for an
online general chemistry course.

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Art and Theatre

The department has been a busy place the past few
months. Art program classes are overflowing struggling
with the mixed blessing of high student enrollment. A new
class in collage is being offered, with intermediate and
advanced paintings classes being taught at the Cowan
House at St. John's Museum of Art. Teaching at St. John's,
which was initiated because of the space crunch in Kenan
Hall, has been a terrific experience for the students — and
for St. John's. Visitors to the museum have conmiented on
how it enriches the environment of the museum to see
artists at work. Students have loved being able to visit the
museum during class and to paint from the landscape of
downtown Wilmington. In the meantime, university theatre
students produced Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing in the SRO Theatre. Directed by Dr. Renee
Vincent, the play presented the challenge of staging a play
with a cast of fifteen in a small studio space. In an
innovative design set in Little Italy, New York in 1959, Dr.
Vincent and the design team of Alex Sargent, Heather
Laska, and Scott McElheney used the Kenan Hall
courtyard for entrances, kept the sets to a minimum, and
enhanced the performances with stylish costumes, masks,
and Ughting. The production sold out every night, including
two performances added by popular demand. Theatre
students, operating under their production name S.T.A.G.E.,
also sold out their performances of one-act plays, which
were staged in late November.

Biological Sciences

Six faculty joined the biology department this fall. Dr. Ahna
Szmant from the University of Miami works on the
physiology and reproduction of hard corals. Dr. Carmelo
Tomas from the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection focuses his research on the ecology of harmful
algal blooms. Also from the department. Dr. Ami Wilbur
(UNCW B.S. in 1985) joined the faculty. Her research
area is mariculture of shellfish. Dr. Craig Bailey (UNCW
B.S. in 1990) came from the Bigelow labs in Maine. His
work focuses on the phylogeny of marine algae. Dr. Linda
Potts joined us as an instructor in biology. Laura Reuss
(UNCW M.S. in 1999) is now the undergraduate lab
coordinator. In addition, Cathy Olson is the advising
coordinator. She is responsible for sophomore and junior
advisement of biology and marine biology majors. In other
news, Dr. Larry Cahoon and colleagues began their
NOAA grant for coastal ocean monitoring in time to
document the effects of hurricane Floyd on the Cape Fear
region. Dr. Posey and colleagues received a NSF-CRUI

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grant to work on juvenile blue crabs. This will support ten
undergraduate interns doing research in the labs of six
faculty for the next 4 years. The undergraduate Biology
Club has proposed opening a chapter of the National Honor
Society for undergraduate research in biology. Beta Beta
Beta should begin induction of new members this spring. In
addition, the department will make a big splash at the
Biennial Marine Mammal Conference in Maui, Hawaii this
year. Dr. Pabst, Dr. Sayigh, Mr. McLellan, Ms.
Koster, Ms. Hill, Ms. Nill, Ms Meagher, Ms. Stegall,
Ms. Zvalaren, and Ms. Barco will present papers on their
research on dolphins, whales, and manatees. Dr. Steve
Emslie and graduate student Jenny McDaniel will travel
to Antarctica this spring for their research on penguin
rookeries.

Chemistry

The department was fortunate to have Dr. David White,

an energetic chemist conducting research in organo-
metaUcs, join UNCW this year. He has already been
successful in obtaining two grants and has started a very
ambitious research program in molecular modehng and
laboratory experiments. He has several graduate and
undergraduate students working with him. This past
summer the department received ACS approval for the B.S.
degree in chemistry. More recently, notification was given
that the option in biochemistry was also approved by the
American Chemical Society. In addition to a general
increase in outside funding for chemical research, the
chemical education group — including Dr. Dick Ward, Dr.
Jimmy Reeves, and Distinguished Visiting Professor
J. Dudley Herron — received over $2,000,000 in funding.
They are involved in exploring new and innovative ways of
dehvering chemistry education through technology with an
initial focus on undergraduate education. Dr. Herron is one
of the leading authorities in the field of chemical education.
Dr. Ned Martin organized the successful 4* UNCW
Symposium on Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Communication Studies

The department's new entrance requirements took effect
with the 1999-2000 undergraduate catalogue. To pursue the
B.A. in communication studies, students must pass through
an academic gateway that includes a GPA minimum as well
as demonstrated competencies in two courses: public
speaking and research methods. Two scholarships are now
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been established in memory of the program's first
coordinator. The Shirley Gilbert Farr Scholarship was
estabUshed to honor the hfe and contributions of the regional
media personality and UNCW alumna. Students Koyah
Alston, Nicole Brusik, Heath Franklin, and Thomas
Phillips are among those who have created and produce
The Press, a weekly television news magazine. Faculty
continue to stay active, expanding and developing courses
as well as participating in conventions and conferences,
including those hosted by the National Communication
Association, North Carolina Theatre Conference, Carolinas
Communication Association, and Popular Culture
Association of the South. Drs. Carole Tallant and Frank
Trimble accompanied students attending the National
Black Storytelling Festival and Conference. Dr. Lou
Buttino's documentary "Honduran Hope" tied for first
place in the documentary category in the Broadcast
Education Association's national competition. During the
Fall 1999 semester two faculty members were cited for
outstanding achievement. Dr. Buttino was recognized with a
UNCW Faculty Scholarship Award. Dr. Patricia
Comeaux was the recipient of a Chancellor's Teaching
Excellence Award.

Computer Science

The department welcomed two new tenure-track faculty
members: Associate Professor Gene A. Tagliarini from
Clemson University and Assistant Professor Clayton S.

Ferner from the Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies,
Inc. Two new computing systems have been inaugurated.
They are a LINUX-based environment for instruction, and
a parallel computer cluster for faculty research. A new
laboratory for upper-level students is now in full operation
and providing support for both new courses and updating of
existing courses. The department continues to recruit
faculty to accommodate the explosive growth in demand for
computer science. Dr. Ronald J. Vetter was invited to
deliver the keynote address at a major conference, the
Association for Computing Machinery International Sympo-
sium on Computing at Torreon, Mexico in November. Dr.
Fletcher R. Norris was named professor emeritus upon
his retirement in June.

Creative Writing

Creative Writing continues to establish itself as a full-
fledged, vibrant department. Tentative plans are well
underway for what promises to be a very popular under-

graduate major and minor. Like the MFA degree, the
undergraduate program will be designed to combine studio
workshops with courses in literature, aesthetics, fine arts,
and the sciences. The department continues to offer high
quality literary events to the community. The newly created
King 's Road Writers Series left the gate with an impres-
sive Uneup for 1999-2000, including readings by novelist and
musician Clyde Edgerton, poet Carolyn Forche, novelist
Bret Lott, nonfiction writer Terry Tempest Williams,
and novelist Bob Reiss. The department continues to seek
opportunities to aid students and its educational mission. A
new scholarship fund has been established and Creative
Writing is poised to begin fund-raising in earnest. The
successes of alumni and current students alike are being
celebrated. Nancy J. Jones' book Molly is schedule to
begin distribution by Crown Publishers in March 2000.
Lavonne Adams' poetry chapbook Everyday Still Life
received the Persephone Poetry Prize and was published
last summer. Jean Stanley's novel, The Hindu Temple
was accepted this fall for publication by Algonquin Books,
as was Dana Sachs' memoir The House On Dream
Street: An American Woman 's Life In Hanoi. Other
student publications have appeared in such prominent
periodicals as the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Ontario
Review, Cimarron Review, Cross Currents, and Fourth
Genre.

Earth Sciences

The department welcomed a new geography faculty
member. Dr. Joanne N. Halls, this fall. Dr. Halls received
her Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina in 1996 and
comes to UNCW from Research Planning Inc., of Colum-
bia, SC. Her specialties are geographic infonnation process-
ing, scientific analysis, and spatial modeUng. Under Dr.
Halls' supervision, a new geographic information systems
laboratory is being established in DeLoach Hall. The
department is also conducting two geography searches this
year in the areas of climatology and geomorphology. These
searches will replace geography faculty Drs. Rudi Kiefer
and Jocelyn Gaudet, who left the university last spring.

English

Dr. Richard Veit has been appointed as department chair
after serving as interim chair since Februiuy 1999. Students
in the English Club have hosted celebrations in honor of
literary figures, including a 'Keats Birthday Party' and a
'Lunch with Milton.' In addition to its traditional literary
repertoire, the department is taking a distinctly international
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weeks at the University of Oulu in northern Finland,
teaching a women's studies course as part of a cooperative
program with UNCW. This summer Dr. Paula Kamenish
will take students to Finland, where, under the midnight sun,
she will teach a course called 'Northern Warriors: The
Scandinavian Saga.' Kamenish, a European Uterature
specialist, also recently took students to study in Paris. The
department is also offering courses in literature from the
third-world and emerging countries taught by Dr. Lindsay
Aegerter, a native of Zimbabwe. Among recent honorees,
Dr. Barbara Waxman won the 1999 University Award for
Faculty Scholarship. Waxman has done important research
in the literature of aging, Gothic literature, and multicultural
Uterature. Dr. Joanne Corbett, who has retired after 41
years in the department, was honored as professor
emeritas.

Foreign Languages and Literatures

This is an exciting time for the department. It is growing
and it is moving! Enrollments are up, especially in Spanish.
The Spanish section is currently planning a graduate
certification program. In addition to teaching foreign
language, culture, and literature classes within the
department, the faculty continue to be active in a number of
interdiscipUnary programs on campus, including film studies,
Latin American studies, classical studies, and European
studies. Furthermore, the department is one of four that will
be housed in the new general classroom building with a
state-of-the-art language laboratory. This year Dr. Denise
DiPuccio, chair and professor of Spanish, and Dr. Alison
Murray, assistant professor of French, joined the faculty.
Dr. Murray spent last year in Paris on a Mary Isabel Sibley
research fellowship studying at the Ecole Normale
Superieure and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales while researching her book on the cultural history
of French documentary film. Dr. Maria Cami-Vela
received a Charles Cahill Award to conduct research on
contemporary Spanish female directors. As the recipient of
a College of Arts & Sciences Summer Initiative Grant, Dr.
Teresita Parra completed an article on the Puerto Rican
author, Rosario Ferre. Faculty teaching honors include
associate professor Dr. Lori Spicher's Board of Trustees
Teaching Excellence Award and Distinguished Teaching
Professorship.

Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Newly recruited department chair. Dr. Carl A. Stockton is

excited about the growth and development of HPER
programs. Recently the athletic training program was

approved for candidacy by the National Athletic Trainers
Association. Athletic training programs are required to be in
candidacy status for two years to prepare for the
accreditation visit, making HPER's scheduled for the fall of
2001. The newly developed exercise concentration
curriculum will provide students with the knowledge and
skills to be successful in various careers, such as corporate
fitness directors, hospital wellness coordinators, or cardiac
rehabilitation specialists. Current plans are to develop a
community health education concentration and a certificate
program in health education. Faculty continue to be
professionally active in HPER field. Drs. Stockton and
Mike Perko were elected to the national board of
directors for the American Association for Health
Education. New faculty member Dr. Darwin Dennison
has been active working on several grants, including a
recently awarded Charles L. Cahill grant to implement a
nutrition intervention program for rural, under- served middle
school students. Dr. John Bennett was the keynote
speaker at the Vermont Association for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance state convention.

History

The department welcomed long-time faculty member Dr.
Kathleen Berkeley as chair. Dr. Larry Usilton returned
to the faculty after four years of chair service. Other
faculty highlights include the return from retirement of Dr.
John Haley, the assumption of graduate coordinator duties
by Dr. William McCarthy, and the addition of new two
faculty members, Drs. Hal Langfur and Virginia Stewart.
Dr. Langfur comes to UNCW from the University of
Texas, stepping into the newly created position in Latin
American history. Dr. Stewart, from Lake Forest College, is
the new director of the public history program. Building
upon last year's success the department anticipates a
successful conclusion to this year's search for a European
historian specializing in the early modem period. The
faculty's impressive publication record continues this year
with monographs by Drs. Berkeley, Andrew Clark,
Walter Conser, and Chris Fonvielle and journal articles
by Drs. Clark, Langfur, Yixin Chen, Michael Seidman,
and Robert Toplin. Faculty also serve with distinction.
Drs. Conser, Seidman and Tophn sit on advisory boards of
regional and national journals. Drs. Fonvielle, Usilton, and
Susan McCaffray are officers of state and regional
historical associations. In addition to her teaching and
research activities, Dr. McCaffray is quite busy with her
duties as local arrangements coordinator for the annual
meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
hosted by UNCW in March 2000.

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Mathematics and Statistics

A national search is underway for a new chair for the
department. Dr. Douglas Smith stepped down from the
chair position at the end of fall semester after holding the
position for more than 16 years. Dr. Wei Feng is serving as
the interim chair through the spring semester. The
department has been updating its strategic plan by
developing strategies for meeting its objectives in enhancing
the learning environment, strengthening the graduate
program, further developing involvement with other
departments, and establishing a statistical consulting center.
The department also established a student advisory council
consisting of six undergraduate and two graduate student
members that has been meeting with the department chair
to discuss matters of mutual interest.

Music

The department continues to grow in student numbers each
year with the success of its programs and graduates. The
fall 1999 enrollment for music majors and minors was up 37
percent from last year and includes a large freshmen class
of talented young musicians. Other department news
includes a change in degree title for the B.A. in Music,
performance option, to a B.M. in music performance. The
new degree title allows for better delineation between
curricular offerings, which now include a B.A. in music
(liberal arts), a B.M. in music (performance), and a B.M. in
music (music education). In exciting student news, jazz
major Steven Thorne was selected as an 'Outstanding
College Jazz Performer' by Down Beat Magazine in their
22nd Annual Down Beat Student Music Awards. The
magazine received over 2,500 recorded submissions for
various categories including college and high school
ensembles as well as individual performers. A panel of
internationally recognized jazz musicians and educators
reviewed each submission and selected the top
performances. Department chair Frank Bongiorno was
recently selected for inclusion in the International Who's
Who in Music and Musicians Directory.

Philosophy and ReUgion

The department continues to be a leader in teaching,
research, and service. Dr. Don Habibi was the recipient of
the 1999 College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence
Award. Dr. Herbert Berg received a summer stipend
from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr.
Walter Thomas Schmid served as program director for a
four-part NC Humanities Council grant-sponsored series

"Memory and Monuments: Commemorating 1898." Created
during a Summer Development Initiative, Dr. Schmid's
postmodernism web site has attracted 36,000 visitors so far.
Dr. Walter Conser continues his research with a book,
Sacred Spaces: Architecture and Religion in Historic
Wilmington. Dr. Patricia Turrisi continues as director of
the Center for Teaching Excellence, which served more
than 1 ,200 faculty in workshops and other teaching
resources last year. She also serves as a consultant on a
federal Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary
Education (FIPSE) grant project. Dr. Jim Megivern
continues to speak around the state and the nation on the
death penalty, a highlight being his participation in a
conference at Emory University with President Jimmy
Carter and Andrew Young. Dr. Candace Gauthier is
active in the American Society for Bioethics as well as in
local health care forums. Dr. Joe Wilson is chair of a five-
year seminar in Yogacara Buddhist Studies under the
American Academy of Rehgion. Dr. Carol Thysell took
part in a conference, "Moments of Change,
Transformations of Christian Traditions in the West," in
Denmark. Dr. Maurice Stanley chaired a session on
political philosophy at the Bosanquet Conference at Harris-
Manchester College, Oxford University, England. The
highlight of recent public offerings from the department was
the annual B. Frank Hall Lecture given this year by Dr.
Fitzhugh Brundage, chair, Department of History,
University of Florida, a former National Humanities Center
fellow.

Physics and Physical Oceanography

This year has seen a number of major changes in the
department, including the retirement of two longtime faculty
members and the recruitment of a new chair. Drs.
Hildelesa Hernandez and Irvin Clator both retired in
June, 1999 after 35 and 29 years of service to the UNCW
respectively. Chair Dr. Curt Moyer. formerly with
Clarkson University, and Dr. Timothy Black, a recent
graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, are among new additions that
also include Visiting Professor Dr. Emile Bernard. While
teaching continues to be the department's most important
activity, there is renewed emphasis on promoting
opportunities for undergraduate involvement in research.
Helping support such efforts are Dr. Fred Bingham, who,
with colleagues from biology and chemistry, is the recipient
of a NOAA award to monitor coastal waters in the south
Atlantic. Dr. Moyer is the recipient of an NSF award to
develop multimedia teaching materials for quantum physics.
Senior physics major Michael Muglia reported the fruits
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the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society
(SESAPS) held this year in Raleigh. Still more excitement
and challenges are on the horizon, as UNCW prepares to
host the SESAPS gathering in November 2003. Dr. Black,
whose specialty is nuclear physics, brings some much-
needed experimental balance to the program. That balance
will be further improved with the addition of another
permanent faculty member selected from a national search
now underway.

Political Science

Dr. Tom Barth organized a well-attended symposium in
November on managing growth in southeastern North
Carolina. Entitled "Responsible Growth Through Regional
Cooperation: Focus on Infrastructure," the symposium
marked a collaboration between the department and Cape
Fear Tomorrow, Inc., and drew sponsors from regional
corporations and counties. Dennis Rash, senior vice
president for Corporate Real Estate Services, Bank of
America Corporation, delivered the keynote address. In
other news. Dr. Barth was elected secretary of the North
Carolina PoUtical Science Association, and Roger Lowery
is associate editor of The Southeastern Political Review.
Drs. Stephen Meinhold and Lloyd Jones published their
article, "The Secondary Consequences of Conducting Polls
in PoUtical Science Classes: A Quasi-Experimental Test," in
Political Science and Politics. Dr. Meinhold has also been
invited to deliver a lecture at the Federal Emergency
Management Agency Project Impact Summit in
Washington, D.C. Dr. Remonda Kleinberg published her
book Strategic Alliances and Other Deals: State-
Business Relations and Economic Reform in Mexico, and
Dr. Lee Johnston published two articles in National
Biography.

Psychology

Faculty and students have been active in research and
scholarship this academic year. Two psychology faculty
members are leaders in major professional organizations.
Dr. Carol Pilgrim is president-elect of the Association for
Behavior Analysis, International. During her tenure, the
society will hold meetings in both the United States and
Europe. Dr. Mark Galizio is president-elect of Division on
Behavior Analysis of the American Psychological
Association (APA). Dr. John Cavanaugh, provost and Dr.
Antonio Puente are members of the Council of
Representatives which governs the APA. Kim Ramos, a
senior majoring in psychology received a $500 award from
the APA Division 20 and the Retirement Research

Foundation. This national award will fund her research
entitled, "Effects of Age, Depression, and Alzheimer's
Disease on Working Memory" under the direction of Lisa
Jenkins and Antonio Puente. The APA is the largest
scientific and professional organization representing
psychology in the United States and is the world's largest
association of psychologists. APA's membership includes
more than 159,000 researchers, educators, clinicians,
consultants, and students. Ms. Pam Richman, a May 1999
graduate of the UNCW master's program in substance
abuse treatement psychology, received the highest score of
any person from North Carolina, doctoral or master's
prepared, taking the most recent hcensing exam for
psychologists. Currently, Ms. Richman is a Licensed
Psychological Associate practicing as a staff psychologist at
Coastal Horizons in Wilmington.

Social Work

Several faculty have recent notable achievements. Dr.
Karen Sandell is working with the NC Department of
Social Services on two funded projects. One project
concerns development of a model child welfare curriculum
in the social work programs at UNCW, N.C. State, and
Appalachian State for later dissemination to other under-
graduate programs in the UNC system. The other involves
a joint program with N.C. State University to introduce the
use of family group conferencing in child protection services
in North CaroUna. Dr. Bob Blundo contributed a chapter
to the newly released Preserving and Strengthening Small
Towns and Rural Communities and published an article in
the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Dr. Nelson
Reid's book The Professionalization of Poverty: Social
Work and the Poor in the 20''' Century has just been
released. Dr. Karen Bullock facihtated a think-tank work/
discussion group at the First Annual Multi-Cultural Social
Work Institute hosted by N.C. State. The 3'^'' Annual Social
Work Student Conference was held at UNCW in the fall,
bringing students and notable presenters from across the
southeast region. The keynote speaker was Dr. Roberta
Green from Indiana University School of Social Work. The
program accreditation process continued with the faculty
working closely with field supervisors and others to
complete the initial self-study submitted to the Council on
Social Work Education in December. Next step toward full
accreditation is a site visit in the spring.

Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice

Faculty continue to make important contributions to
university service. Dr. Richard Dixon has been appointed

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director of Technology College. Dr. Eleanor Covan is

director of the Graduate Certificate Program in
Gerontology is also a recipient of the Distinguished
Teaching Professorship Award. She was recently awarded
a grant from the Association for Gerontology in Higher
Education for her project, "UNCW Generations Together:
Gerontology Service Learning Project." In addition. Dr.
Lynne Snowden began her first year as president of the
Faculty Senate. The department sponsored a guest speaker.
Dr. Stephen Steele, past-president and co-founder of the
Society for Applied Sociology. Dr. Steele's visit was
coordinated by Dr. Jammie Price, a new faculty member.
Dr. Mike Adams, returned to the department after
spending the past year studying law at the UNCCH School
of Law. Several criminal justice faculty have been asked
by the U.S. Attorney's office to assist the Wilmington Police
Department and the District Attorney's Office as research
partners in the development and evaluation of a project to
reduce gun violence. Study participants include Drs. Darrel
Irwin, Ron Everett, Randy LaGrange, and Cecil L.
Willis. Two sociology faculty, Drs. Dixon and McNamee
serve on the executive council of the N.C. Sociological
Association.

Environmental Studies Program

This year has brought marked growth to the program with
nearly 300 majors now pursuing B.A. and B.S. degrees.
Given its increasing popularity, Drs. Jack Hall, Bob
Buerger, and Bob Cutting have begun fine-tuning the
program to match student wants and needs more closely.
This fall they completely revised the B.A. requirements,
establishing a new core curriculum that includes
environmental economics, law, natural resource
management, political science, and geography, as well as
adding new electives to both the B.A. and B.S. programs.
Internships, which are coordinated by Cutting, continue to
increase in popularity with students. Currently more than
70 pubUc, governmental, private, and non-profit
organizations and agencies at the local, state, federal, and
international levels are accepting interns on a regular basis.
For the first time, the EVS program sent students to intern
with the Belize Audubon Society, which manages all
national parks in Behze. EVS students have also been
working on the development of wildlife preserves in several
locations. In addition, a new joint degree program option
with N.C. State was recently approved. A student choosing
this option will receive a B.S. in environmental science from
UNCW and a B.S. in environmental engineering from N.C.
State. Another first for the program has been the
establishment of an EVS trust fund. The program hopes

that donations to the fund will eventually provide
scholarships for outstanding students.

Film Studies Program

Unprecedented growth in program interest has doubled
enrollment in film studies courses and tripled internships at
film-related agencies and businesses in the past year. The
program welcomed the Wilmington Regional Film
Commission as one of the newest intern agency partners.
The commission will also assist with an upcoming study of
the economic impact of the film industry on the Wilmington
area, a joint research project between the college and the
Cameron School of Business. A film studies partnership
with Screen Gems Studios and the N.C. Department of
Labor resulted in the December publication of a 165-page
North Carolina Motion Picture and Television Safety
Handbook for students and professionals. Curriculum
planning continues toward the establishment of a B.A.
degree in film studies, targeted for implementation in fall
2000. The spring semester has welcomed a new film course
for the planned program. Senior Seminar in Independent
Production. The course is currently being taught by writer-
director Terry Linehan, whose feature Sugarfoot is being
produced in Wilmington and is serving as a case study in
film development, fund-raising, and production. Future
instructors of this course will also be drawn from resident
film professionals whose films are being produced locally.

Museum of World Cultures

Under the leadership of newly appointed director Dr. Doric
Reents-Budet, the museum's efforts are focused on
student projects at UNCW and on summer internship and
research opportunifies in the U.S. and abroad. This
semester a group of students is curating a special exhibition
featuring Colonial Latin American art from the Paul A.
Clifford Collecfion. Dr. Reents-Budet completed her
exhibition of ancient Maya art and related public education
projects at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto.
Canada, which was voted among the top ten art exhibitions
in Toronto during 1999. She also completed three articles
for publication: "Classic Maya Conceptualizations of the
Royal Court" (invited chapter for Royal Courts of the
Ancient Maya), "Out of the Palace Dumps: Ceramic
Production and Use at Buenavista del Cayo, Belize" (for
the journal Ancient Mesoamerica), and "More than
Methodology: INAA and Classic Maya Painted Ceramics"
(invited chapter for a Smithsonian Institution book in honor
of theoretical mathematician and nuclear chemist Dr.
Edward Sayre).

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"To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational
institution is to... make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity."

-Calvin CooUdge (1872-1933)

The College of Arts & Sciences is
extremely fortunate to have an
active and generous group of
benefactors who choose to provide
gifts in support of its students, faculty
and programs.

Many of these people are
committed to helping students
financially. They often express this by
giving generously to current
scholarship and award funds to help
students attend and to recognize
excellent work at UNCW. In addition,
new funds have been established to do
just that:

The Johanna Howerton Rehder
Scholarship in Voice was established
by her grandfather, Henry Rehder.
Johanna was a freshman at UNC
Wilmington at the time of her death in
1995. The scholarship is given to a
voice student because of her great
love of singing.

The John Q. Walker Scholarship
in Chemistry was established by John
and Virginia Walker. It is based on
financial need and merit for a
chemistry student. The Walkers feel
very strongly about helping excellent
and promising students who otherwise,
for financial reasons, might not be able
to attend UNCW to pursue a degree in
chemistry.

Dr. Bart and Peggy Jones
recently established the S. Bart &
Peggy N. Jones Award for
Excellence in Analytical Chemistry.
This annual award is given to the
student achieving the highest grade in
both lecture and lab in Chemistry 435.
In keeping with scholarship funding
efforts, two challenge gifts of $5,000
each have been offered to those who
decide to give to endow the Fletcher

Norris Scholarship (in computer
science). Professor Emeritus Fletcher
Norris established the scholarship last
year as an annual award. He was so
delighted with response that he
decided to begin funding an
endowment to permanently establish
the fund. His gift and challenge match
was soon followed by the commitment
of alumnus Kit Cosper to provide an
additional match on monies raised!

Other examples of giving to
existing funds is the completion of the
funding of the endowment of the Betty
Jo Welch Scholarship in
Communication Studies and the
constant expression of generosity by
members of the region's medical
community who contribute to the New
Hanover-Pender Medical Society
Premedical Scholarship.

We were saddened to learn of the
passing of Professor Emeritus William
S. DeLoach. Dr. DeLoach was a
staunch supporter of UNCW and the
Department of Chemistry, establishing
during his lifetime the Will S. DeLoach
Distinguished Professorship in
Chemistry, the Will S. DeLoach
Endowed Chemistry Fund, and the
Will S. DeLoach Scholarship. He
also provided the annual DeLoach
chemistry challenge, matching all
unrestricted gifts to the department.
He was generous even after his death,
leaving a major portion of his estate to
benefit the department's students,
faculty and programs.

Donors have chosen to make many
gifts of art, equipment and other
materials to benefit college programs.
Individuals such as Naomi Yopp,
Jeanne Davis and Jean Willard
provided much needed items to the

Department of Art & Theatre, helping
students present theatre productions as
part of their course work.

Garvin Faulkner, long time friend
of the late Wilmington artist, Claude
Howell, presented three pieces of the
artist's work for the Claude Howell
Gallery. Seated Fisherman, Three
Men on a Shrimper and watercolor,
Beach at Captiva are wonderful
additions to the university collection.

Beach at Captiva

Paul Clifford, a long time friend of
many at UNCW, gave his extensive
Ubrary to the Museum of World
Cultures. It includes hundreds of
important and often rare books on
Precolumbian, Colonial Latin
American, and African art and culture.
The gift dramatically increases the
opportunity for students to conduct
high quality research as part of new
courses to be offered by the
anthropology and art history disci-
plines. Part of his reason for making
the gift, given in honor of Dr. Gerry
Shinn and Dr. Dorie Reents-Budet,
is to inspire others to provide the
Museum of World Cultures with gifts
of art, but especially financial support.

Companies and non-profit
organizations such as IKA Works,
Inc., Applied Analytical Industries,
Inc., Home Stay Inn, KOSA, The
Italian Heritage Society, Wright

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Corporation, The King's Road,
PPD, CP&L, The Reigelwood
Community Foundation, IBM,
N.C. Biotechnology Center, The
Glaxo Wellcome Foundation and
others too many to name here continue
to support the college's 21 departments
and programs.

As the Fall

semester was

ending, many

donors took

part in an evening

with the Moscow

Ballet. This is the

second year the

company has Chancellor Jim Leutze meets with

performed the members of the Moscow Ballet company

Nutcracker in Wilmington. Many

members of the Chancellor's Club

attended the ballet and reception

following the Friday night

performance, in part to support the

Department of Art & Theatre trust
fund with proceeds from special ticket
sales.

In the last six months, 21% of
college faculty gave back to UNCW,
often in support of their own
departments. While most provide
unrestricted dollars, some also gave
other gifts vital to
students efforts.

Examples of this
generosity include the
gift of a variety of
percussion instruments
given to the Department
of Music by Dr. John
Rack, assistant
professor, and camera

equipment and research materials to
the Department of Earth Sciences by
Dr. William Harris, professor.

Eileen Sahlin
Director

We encourage those interested in
learning more about estabhshing a
scholarship or fellowship, estabhshing
or supporting lectures and symposiums,
giving to projects or facihties, funding
faculty development or providing
unrestricted funds for support of work
of the College of Arts & Sciences and
its departments and programs to
contact us at (910) 962-3111, fax (910)
962-3114, or email:
sahhnem @ uncwil.edu

Raymond Burt
Associate Dean

Art and Theatre

Kemille Moore, Chair
Biological Sciences

L. Scott Quackenbush, Chair
Chemistry

William Cooper, Chair
Communication Suidies

Frank Trimble, Chair
Computer Science

Barbara Greim, Chair
Creative Writing

Mark Cox, Chair

College of Arts & Sciences Administration
Jo Ann Seiple, Dean

Stephen Pullum Eileen Sahlin Jeffery Hill

Associate Dean DevelopmentCAS Faculty Associate for

Technology Enhancement

Director

Earth Sciences

Patricia Kelley, Chair
English

Richard Veit. Chair
Foreign Languages
and Literatures

Denise DiPuccio, Chair
Health, Physical Education
and Recreation

Carl Stockton, Chair
History

Kathleen Berkeley, Chair

Mathematics and Statistics

Wei Feng. Interim Chair
Music

Frank Bongiomo, Chair
Philosophy and Religion

Joe Wilson, Chair
Physics and Physical
Oceanography

Curt Moyer, Chair
Political Science

Earl Sheridan, Chair
Psychology,

Lee A. Jackson, Chair

Social Work

Nelson Reid, Chair
Sociology and Anthropology

Cecil Willis. Chair
Environmental Studies

Jack Hall. Director
Film Studies

Ellen Wiilters. Director
Museum of World Cultures

Dorie Reents-Budet. Director
Kemin Auditorium

Don Hawley. Director

For information about the UNCW College of Arts & Sciences and its departments, programs and giving
opportunities, please contact the Office of the Dean at (910) 962-31 1 1 fax (910) 962-31 14

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IINCW

New Classroom
Building...

After much anticipation, the
groundbreaking on the new
classroom building will begin in
March 2000. This building, to be
adjacent to Morton Hall, will be the
new home for four of the college's
departments, providing much needed
classroom and office space. The

departments of social work, political
science, communication studies, and
foreign languages and literatures
should be able to move into the building
by Fall semester 2001.

With its 16 multi-media enabled
classrooms, television studio, satellite
TV viewing room, computer labs for

foreign languages and communications
studies, and poUmetrics lab, this new
addition will greatly enhance the
quality of education. UNCW-TV and
the film studies program will be housed
in the building also.

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